Top men's basketball assistant leaving Iowa State

2:08 PM,
May 7, 2013

Iowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg talks with associate head coach T.J. Otzelberger as players watch an NCAA men's basketball tournament selection show in March. Otzelberger is leaving Iowa State to become an assistant at the University of Washington.

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T.J. Otzelberger, Iowa State basketball coach Fred Hoiberg's top assistant the past three seasons, is going to become an assistant at the University of Washington.

Otzelberger will replace Lamont Smith, who has accepted a position on Craig Neal's new staff at New Mexico. Washington's head coach is Lorenzo Romar.

"Lorenzo Romar pursued me about a position," Otzelberger told the Register on Tuesday in a telephone interview. "We've had a 10-year relationship. My goal is to become a head coach, and I feel like he's somebody that has had a lot of guys who worked for him go on to be head coach." ...